The Life of George Orwell - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Year that Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final published work 1948
92%
He was born in this colony of the British Empire British {India}
92%
Orwell satirised the leadership of this country in his book Animal Farm Soviet Union
92%
Orwell was shot in the throat while fighting in this war Spanish Civil War
83%
After leaving school, he worked as an imperial policeman in this colony Burma
79%
His birth name Eric Arthur Blair
79%
Year that George Orwell was born 1903
75%
Prestigious boarding school that Orwell attended from age 13 to 18 Eton College
75%
His first published work was an account of his time living in poverty in these two cities Paris
75%
Infectious lung disease that caused Orwell's death Tuberculosis
75%
London
71%
He also wrote an account of poverty among coal miners in this northern English town Wigan
54%
Organisation for which he worked as a journalist The BBC
42%
Orwell's pen name was inspired by this geographical feature in Suffolk {River} Orwell
38%
He famously described his family as belonging to this social class {Lower-upper-middle} class
21%
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